Drawer attachment for desks.



L. G. WALKER &- c. E. WILSON.4 DRAWER ATTAGHMENT FOR DESKS. APPLIOATIONFILED JLY 1a. 19de.

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- to a desk or table, said desk or table being i UNirnD sfrarps rnrENTOFFICE.

LOUIS C. WALKER AND CHARLES E. WILSON,4 OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORSTO THE SHAW-WALKER COMPANY, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OFMICHIGAN.

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To all whom 'it may cof/teem:

-Be it known that we, Louis C'. WALKER and CHARLEs'E. WILSON, citizensof the United States of America, residing at Muske-` v Our inventionrelates to improvements inv drawer attachments for desks, andits objectis to provide detached and-interchangeable receptacles or drawersadapted to be attached otherwisecomplete without such .,attach ments,and the attachments being so constructedthat they may be used 1n greateror less numbers, or not at all, in connection with the table, and toprovide the device with various new and useful features hereinafter morefully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Our invention consists essentially of a table or desk complete andfinished without the attachments, and various attachments adapt- 4ed toconstitute various drawers or filing devices, said attachmentspreferably being interchangeable and adapted to be used in connectionwith the table in various relations and in various quantities asoccasion requires, and' in certain featuresA of combination andarrangement of parts as will more fully appear by reference totheaccompanying drawmes, in which:

tligure 1 is a perspective of a device embodying our invention; Fig. 2 atransverse vertical section of the same with the various drawers andfiling devices omitted; and, Fig. 3 a perspective of one of theattachments for supporting a drawer or filing device.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

1 represents the top of a table ordesk, 2

legs beneath the respective corners of the same, said top and legs beingof the usual construction. y

3 are supplementary legs in line with the front corner legs and spaced aart therefrom. The ad'ace'nt surfaces of the egs 2 and 3 are preferablyvertical and parallel to embrace the front ends of the various drawersupports to be inserted therebetween. Extending be'- Speeiication of;Letters Patent.

Application filed July 18, 1908. Serial No. 444,275. v

in su er osed series and Patented June 1, 1909.

tween the legs 2 and?, lare strips 4 attached te the under side of thetop between the legs 2 and 3 and corresponding strips 5 are alsoattached to the 'top and arranged parailel with A the front strips andat a distance therefrom slutlicient to receive therebetween strips 6attached to the top of an interchan cable receptacle 9, on the underside'of which are strips 7 corres ending to the strips 4 and 5 and spaceapart the same distance, whereby other strips 6 may be insertedtherebetween j on the upper side ofl the next receptacle below, as at'10. A single receptacle or a series of these 'receptacles as at 9, 10,'11, and 12,

superposed one above theI other or hanging.y

one'below the other may be used extending Within the limits of the spacebetween the table to and the floor and `under one or more of the ourcorners of the table as occasion arises. To support these variousreceptacles in place, we prefer to use rods 8 extending through'alinedopenings in the various-strips 4, 5, and 6, to secure the rstreceptacleto the tabletop and through like openings in other strips 6 and 7 on thesucessive receptacles below the same. ,p

The auxiliary legs 3 can obviously be dispensed with in this device. Soalso various other means. of securing the various receptacles in placemay be utilized without departing from our invention, which consistsdevices, such receptacles-being secured'in any convenient manner andused singly or preferably also interchangeably related, w ereby they`may be variously arrangedl and used in greater or less numbers and addedto or taken from as occasion may require without changing or modifyingthe construction of the desk or the table proper.

What we claim Ais:--

1. In combination with a table or desk.,a series of su erposed andinterchangeablereceptacles, ottom strips r on the table and saidreceptacles, top strips on said rece tacles adapted to be insertedbetween the ottom strips, and means for detachably connecting the topand bottom strips, whereby lthe receptacles are detachably and interltached to the top and spaced apart, interinterchangeable receptaclesarranged in su` perposed series beneath the top, means for securing theupper rece tacle to the table and means for detachab y securing .eachreceptacle to the'next one above the same.

4. In combination with a table or desk having a to and legs at therespective corners, other egs spaced apart fromthe cor ner legs andparallel therewith, a strip between the legs and attached to the top, astrip attached to the .top and spaced apart from the rstv lnamed strip,interchangeable receptacles having top and bottom strips inserted inopenings, and rods in said strips whereby the upper receptacle issuspended below the top and the other receptacles are sus ended inseries below the upper receptac e.

In testimony whereoil we affix our signatures lin presence of twowitnesses.

LOUIS C. WALKER. CHARLES E. WILSON. Witnesses:

Josie JOHNSON, G..C. JACOBS.

